so right!!

I guess you could say the brother worked it out like willie hutch

He spoke Spanish? I didn't know that. But, yes, he did look Latino. Very handsome man. Very talented actor. I wish he had gotten more starring roles.

I feel you sister.I don't get caught up in the junk they have us playing yeah there's good here ad there but lately what the hell up with all these slave crap now being expoited can't we have other things to play besides that?.

I want to be a filmmaker.I think if there were more black people behind the camera we wouldn't be having conversations like this.What do you think?

I want to change that?

We can change that together, my brother, through my own production company.

A classic s soul brother movie of all time rip Ron o Neal for ever

@ cilla c it would be wonderful if carol banks could write a book about her years with ron. she did an interview with jet magazine, i believe, on the day their divorce was final. she gave a little insight into the pain ron went through after superfly. she also touched on her pain of him leaving her for another woman. she was astonished that he left her for a white woman since he was so into the plight of blacks. he did remarry in 1993 to a black woman by the name of audrey pool who was a construction engineer. some info of her can be found on the internet. they were married until he passed away in 2004.

@@irenebrewer5726 Yes, I read the Jet Magazine interview from 1980. Well, as I quoted Ellen Holly's book, Ron was not the kindest man when it came to his relationships with women during the 70's. When I read the Jet magazine article, I got the impression the marriage was over way before his first wife was willing to accept it. As in Robert Guilliume's book, he said Ron had picked up "super Fly's" ways,so this could be about Ron with other women during his marriage along with drug use. In the movie Super Fly "Priest" had two women and liked to use cocaine. Have you read Ellen Holly's book "One Life"? It's got a least 3 chapters on her relationship with Ron. This relationship would have been scandalous if it happened today with all the Social Media,but meaning the relationship happened during 1971-1972, I guess Ron's manager was able to keep it quiet.

@@cilla-themusiclover oh yes, was definitely a huge womanizer. ellen holly stated that she was not jealous of other women but she was jealous of his dog...lol. after superfly was completed he went to cleveland and after a while he returned to new york with his future wife carol banks. he was untruthful to ellen about his and carol's relationship. ellen had admitted that ron had not given her reason to think of herself as ron's "beloved". it's sad that she would let men use her as ron and others did. i'm not sure that the relationship was kept quiet by ron's management. the media (black) turned on ron and he became the 'invisible man'. he barely received publicity of any kind, good or bad. many fans had no idea that he passed away because his death received little attention. i first found out by reading a news crawl on mtv. i saw nothing in jet or ebony. SAD!!!!

@@irenebrewer5726 I remember hearing of Ron's death on the radio and read it in the NY times as well as Playbill magazine, since Ron was also a threater actor, it was mentioned of his work on and off Broadway. It was also stated in Ellen Holly's book that Carol was married during the time she and Ron planned to marry, they were waiting for her divorce. If true, then her marriage to Ron would be her second. Well, the interesting part is HOW Ron invited Ellen to Cleveland at the same time his fiance was there and had to confess what was going on. Why invite this sittuation when he problably knew it would NOT benefit him. He could have just broke off the relationship with Ellen as soon as his last filming of superfly,that would have been a few weeks before he went back to Cleveland. Also wondered what story Ron told Carol about Ellen,because on the bio of Ron O'neal 'TRUE HOLLYWOOD STORY" ONLY Ellen is mentioned as Ron's girlfriend. Another thing I remember from Ellen Holly is SHE did voice overs for some of the white Actress that played "Priest's Side Chick" in SuperFly...yep, she was the one doing those lines because Sig Shorr (producer of SuperFly asked her to do a few "loops" (voice overs). Ron was a good actor, but I believe he got in his own way and didn't have the strongest of people representing him at the time, he should have been sought after for major movie roles. I read somewhere that Ron at a period of time was homless and had a drug addiction that he overcame. His second wife (Audrey Pool) must have been already established in her careeer as an Engineer and had her own wealth. She went on to be a professor at UCLA. Ron never had children....with either marriage and not even adoption? really sad, I bet he would have been a good father.

@@irenebrewer5726 In Robert Giullume's book. there's a story of Robert and Ron at dinner at a mexican resturant where Robert is telling of an offer of doing a TV series,this was around 1977-1978 and the series became "SOAP" where Robert played the butler. When Robert was explaining what his part would be, Ron O'Neal said Robert was too Good an actor for such a demeaning role. Well, I for one am happy that Robert took that role as "Benson the butler on SOAP" because it lead to His Own TV show "BENSON" which was very popular and made Robert a household name. Ron was wrong on that one. I find it also interesting how Ron's wife Carol voiced her opinion by saying Robert had bills and had to eat, then asked her husband "WHO would Support him, you"? Guess Ron had no answer for that.Just by that conversation, you could tell there was tension in Ron's marriage. 1978-1979 must have been a sad time for Carol because soon her marrige was over.

w jones are you suggesting that get some Jewish writers?

Very analytical

hmmm! sadly not very bright!! ross"s head was totally in the wrong place!!!

ron was a black man and he wanted to do most movies that embraced his black heritage. he wasn't about tryin' to pass.

@@irenebrewer5726 That's right! Ron O'neal went through some heavy changes after SuperFly. I read some of Robert Guilliume's bio, he talks about Ron O'neal and he were BEST friends, Ron had a hard time after super Fly. Ron saw Hollywood at it's ugliest where black actors were concerned. It was really difficult trying to encourage movie directors about "casting" black actors back in the 70's thur the 1980's. Ron was all about empowering Black actors.

@@cilla-themusiclover i have robert guillime's bio and i enjoyed it so much. ron's ex-wife, carol banks, who i always hoped he would rejoin contributed to the book. she and ron remained friends long after their divorce.

@@irenebrewer5726 This is why I posted videos from back in 1972, when Ron just finished SuperFly. You mentioned Ron's Ex-wife...I also read Ellen Holly's Book "One Life". Seems Mr. O'neal was NOT very honest in certain parts of his private life. The timeline of this yr 1971-1972 would put 2 women in a realtionship with the same man. Not cool. Jet magazine archives has Ron marriage took place November 1973,in the article He was dating his future wife Carol for 2 YEARS. That means he was with Carol as he dated Ellen Holly since Ellen wrote in her book she started dating Ron in the beginning of Super Fly being filmed. That would be the early part of 1972. Carol lived in Clevland still,while Ron was in NY. His ex-wife is a better person than me....She also felt Ron's "changes". Her book is heart breaking,although she was able to pick up the pieces of her life. Ellen Holly NEVER for gave Ron for how he treated her. Don't think I could have either if it were me.

@@irenebrewer5726 It also kinda of interesting in Carol's poetry she mentioned wanting kids....Did she ever re-marry and start a family?